FREDERICK DOUGLAS (DAC- ATIVISMO)

 “I would unite with anyone to do right and with no one to do evil."

Who?

Name: Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey that was going to be Fredeick Douglas.

Born: The clear date of his birth is not known, but it is known that it was in February 1818 Death: He died at the age of seventy-seven on the twentieth of February, 1895.

Nationality: He's American

Activist- He was a human rights activist

Why

In January 1833 Douglas was leased to local farmer Edward Covey. Leasing or hiring out enslaved persons was a common revenue-generating practice.

One day Covey attacked Douglas, and Douglas fought back.

Douglas ultimately won the fight, and Covey never attacked him again.

Frederick Douglass was motivated by his personal experiences as a slave and a firm conviction that the "America" envisioned in the nation's founding documents could not survive so long as the institution of slavery was allowed to survive.

How

When he escaped to New York, he carried with him a copy of The Columbian Orator. In New Bedford he discovered William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator. Inspired by it, Douglass attended a Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society convention in Nantucket in the summer of 1841. At the meeting, abolitionist William C. Coffin, having heard Douglass speak in New Bedford, invited him to address the general body. Douglass's extemporaneous speech was lauded by the audience, and he was recruited as an agent for the group.

As an agent for both the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and the American Anti-Slavery Society, Douglass traveled the country promoting the organizations' abolition and agenda.

The impact

Douglass held numerous government appointments. He became the first Black U.S. marshal in 1877.

His prominense and hard work resulted in his being the most photographed American man in the nineteenth century.

Douglas's contribution to the Black America Community and American history.

Frederick Douglass lived a life of possibility. As an escaped slave, an abolitionist leader, an advocate for women's suffrage, a journalist, a business owner, and a promoter of social justice issues, his influence continues to live in the modern civil rights movement worldwide.

Trabalho realizado por: Diogo Coelho